The Nature of the Gods (Penguin Classics) Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and religion. The dialogue The Nature of the Gods both explores his own views on these subjects, as a monotheist and mem... Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Origen: Contra Celsum Few works of the early Church are as interesting to the modern reader or as important to the historian as Origen's reply to the attack on Christianity made by the pagan Celsus. The Contra Celsum is the culmination of the great apologetic movement of the... Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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On the Nature of the Universe (Penguin Classics) This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. With a new introduction and commentary and a revised translation, this edition acknowledges advances in textual research and also provides more background information for the reader... Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Aquinas: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) is an extremely influential figure in the history of Western thought and the Catholic church. In this major addition to the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series, Robert Dyson has translated texts by Aqui... Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BCE) was born at Venusia, son of a freedman clerk who had him well educated at Rome and Athens. Horace supported the ill-fated killers of Caesar, lost his property, became a secretar... Manufacturer: Loeb Classical Library
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Ovid's Metamorphoses The classic Elizabethan translation of the Roman masterpiece, now in a new edition.
This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)". Ovid's... Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) This volume contains new, unabridged translations of Luther's On Secular Authority and Calvin's On Civil Government. These works represent the authors' attempts to balance their commitments to the maintenance of order in Church and polity on the one han... Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Summa Theologiae: Volume 18, Principles of Morality: 1a2ae. 18-21 (Summa Theologiae) The Summa Theologiae ranks among the greatest documents of the Christian Church, and is a landmark of medieval western thought. It provides the framework for Catholic studies in systematic theology and for a classical Christian philosophy, and is regula... Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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